The first player in Major League Baseball history to play for both the Boston Red Sox and Toronto Blue Jays in the same game resulted from a two-month delay for the teams.
Catcher Danny Jansen was with the Blue Jays when the first rain-related cancellation of the game occurred on June 26. However, a month later, the Canadian team traded him for three prospects to the Red Sox.
Jansen was playing against his old squad in the exact game he played two months earlier when that weather-delayed game resumed on Monday at the top of the second inning.
No other player, according to the MLB, can lay claim to that specific feat.
The Red Sox, led by Jansen, fell short of their former comrades 7-3. Perhaps the fact that he set a big league record will lessen the hurt.
The 2013 draft pick of the Blue Jays, Jansen was featured in side-by-side pictures wearing the uniforms of both organizations.
“Long at-bat, huh,” the team said as the caption for the X post.
A few jokes were also posted by the MLB official account, which captioned a shot of Jansen on the scoreboard on X with the phrase “the duality of man”.
Another post it made said, “You win some, you lose some.” Ask Danny Jansen, please.”
Reporters were informed by Jansen that he wasn’t expecting to be the first and that he was taken aback by the revelation.
“Putting such a mark on the game is both odd and intriguing,” Jansen stated. “I am appreciative of the chance to have that. Furthermore, it’s a cool thing in the end.
In this kind of scenario, he continued, he “never would have imagined” creating sporting history. In order to donate one actual game-used uniform to the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York, Jansen says he wore two jerseys on Monday.